Young Yoruba for Freedom (YYF)

In 2012, Adeyinka Grandson, started a movement, Young Yorubas for Freedom (YYF), formerly known as the "Noble Yoruba Youths", to stir the imagination of the Yoruba youths and awaken their popular enthusiasm, develop their critical thinking, their ability to observe, understand and analyse problems considerably and appeals to the consciousness of the young Yorubas to support a return to the regional system of government or outright dissolution of Nigeria in favour of Oduduwa Republic.

On the 6th August 2017, he was appointed the President of Young Yorubas for Freedom (YYF). YYF is a conservative youth organization, established in 2012 to ensure that increasing numbers of young Yorubas understand and are inspired by the idea of liberty, individual freedom, a strong Yoruba national defense, free enterprise, and self-preservation.

YYF immediate public course of actions include:

Renaming the Nigeria Stock Exchange's name back to its original name the Lagos Stock Exchange. Renaming the Murtala Muhammad International Airport back to its original name Lagos International Airport. Renaming the Ahmadu Bellow Way, Victoria Island with Fela Anikulapo's Way, Victoria Island. To return the direct and exclusive control of the Yoruba's ports and waterways back to the Yoruba people, which has served as a cash cow for the Hausa/Fulani in the past 50 years.

These are symbolic, but carefully picked targets which can help in disseminating Yoruba youth's resentment down to the grassroots level once implemented to show our seriousness for the declaration of the Oduduwa Republic.

1. Why we are renaming Ahmadu Bello Way, Victoria Island with Fela Anikulapo Way, Victoria Island. The last street on Victoria Island, before the Atlantic Ocean is called the Ahmadu Bello way. Who was Ahmadu Bello? He was the Premier of the North in the first republic, the grandson of Uthman Dan Fodio, the leader of the Fulani Jihad. He boasted that Nigeria is theirs to rule forever, and that they will not stop until they conquer from the desert to the sea, to dip the Quran into the ocean.

Are Yoruba people wise or blind? What have the Fulani’s done by naming the last street by the sea, during the first republic, after Ahmadu Bello? They have simply said that they have symbolically dipped the Quran in the sea and conquered the whole Nigeria, and all of us are their slaves and subjects. If that is not what it is, then please tell me the meaning. Mere coincidence? The Fulani’s don’t play with anecdotes. Hear Ahmadu Bello in the Parrot Newspaper of 12th October 1960: “The new nation called Nigeria should be an Estate of our great grandfather Uthman Dan Fodio. We must ruthlessly prevent a change of power. We use the minorities in the North as willing tools and the South as a conquered territory and never allow them to rule over us and never allow them to have control over their future."

2. Why we are renaming the Nigeria Stock Exchange's name back to its original name the Lagos Stock Exchange. About 1761, a group of 150 English stockbrokers and jobbers established the London Stock Exchange to buy and trade shares. Over 300 years later, it is still being called “London Stock Exchange”. The fundamental reason why the London Stock Exchange retains its name has to make out with the fact that the English, who established the London Stock Exchange, have always used their population and economic power to rule over the rest of the ethnic nations -Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, making up the United Kingdom.

Likewise, on May 17, 1792, twenty-four white Americans stockbrokers and merchants established the New York Stock Exchange. Today, it is still being called the “New York Stock Exchange”. In the event of the New York Stock Exchange, the white Americans who established it have always used their population as well as economic power to rule over the Blacks, Latinos and others as President of the United States and thus able to maintain the name of the stock exchange.

However, on September 15, 1960, young Yoruba agricultural merchants, produce merchants and stockbrokers established the Lagos Stock Exchange. In 1977, the name was changed to the “Nigerian Stock Exchange” by the Hausa/Fulani. Nevertheless, in the case of the Lagos Stock Exchange, the Yoruba couldn’t retain its name because they allowed the Hausa/Fulani to rule over them in spite of the fact that the Yoruba have the highest population in Nigeria (25%) and also the economic backbone of the country, contributing (49%) of the revenue of the Federal Government.

The moral lesson for the Yoruba Youth is to think like the English in Britain and the White in America. The Yoruba are 25 percent of the Nigeria total population, the highest and more than Hausa 20 percent or Fulani 9 percent. Also, the Yoruba is the economic backbone of Nigeria.

3. Why we want to bring the Yoruba's ports and waterways, which has served as a cash cow for the Hausa/Fulani in the past 50 years, to return to the direct and exclusive control of the Yoruba who built the seaports.

I have heard from uninformed Yoruba youth say the Federal Government of Nigeria built the seaports in Lagos, Yorubaland. The simple question to ask is this: Where does the Federal Government get the money to build the seaports?

Here is the simple answer:

The Federal Government of Nigeria gets revenue from the following major sources: Personal Income Tax; Corporate Income Tax; Value Added Tax; Custom Duties; Withholding Tax; Capital Gain Tax; Education Tax; Stamp Duties; National Information Technology Tax; Petroleum Profit Tax (levied on the income of companies engaged in upstream petroleum activities, passed onto vehicle owners); Mining Rents; Miscellaneous Receipts (earnings from fees, charges, dues, rent, interest, dividend, etc.); and Royalties, rents and penalties on oil products.

From all the levies paid to the Federal Government of Nigeria as revenue, the Yoruba pays 49 percent of the total revenues accruing to the Federal Government every month. The South-South geopolitical zone contributes 44 percent. The remaining balance of 7% is contributed by the remaining four geopolitical zones of the South-East, North-Central, North-West and the North-East respectively.

The money used by the Federal Government to build the seaports in Lagos, comes essentially from the Yoruba region of Nigeria. It, therefore, makes economic sense that the revenue realized from seaports, be retained for re-investment into the Yoruba economy.

The seaports in Yorubaland, generates more than N10 trillion a year for the Federal Government of Nigeria. The ports were built with money sourced from Yorubaland, but the N10 trillion revenue collected from the ports is first taking to Abuja, from where it is shared across the six geopolitical zones of Nigeria, based on the number of States, Local Governments and population in each of the geopolitical zones.

At the end of the sharing, the Hausa/Fulani region gets more money from the N10 trillion collected from the Yoruba's ports, because the zone has more states, more local governments and population, yet it contributed nothing to the money. The Yoruba that contributed the whole of the N10 trillion gets a meagre sum. This is an economic injustice and must be stopped.

4. Why we are renaming Murtala Muhammad International Airport back to its original name Lagos International Airport. It was Obasanjo, who renamed Lagos International Airport after Murtala Muhammad. Who was Murtala Muhammad? He was a junior officer back in 1966 and among the Hausa/Fulani soldiers who planned and assassinated his commander-in-chief, Aguyi Ironsi. Murtala Muhammad was a war criminal who with his Hausa/Fulani troops massacred thousands of innocent Igbo civilians at the Niger Bridge in Asaba, which he called “Blood on the Niger”, shortly after the Biafra war had ended and the Igbo had surrendered. He took over power from Gowon in 1975 and was assassinated on the February 13, 1976. He was also a Fulani. Lagos International Airport being the first port of entry into Yorubaland should never have been named after a foreigner, a war criminal and a Fulani for that matter, who have stated that Yorubaland should be an estate of their great grandfather Uthman Dan Fodio. By naming the first port of entry into Yorubaland after a Fulani can only mean that the Yoruba people are conquered people.

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